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Daily Herald, Darnell Dickenson: Last year BYU was predictable on offense and changes were not made to adjust. Now this year in an attempt to change that with Bronco Mendenhall passing along play calling to offensive coordinator Jaime Hill:
"I'll take more of a consultant role," Mendenhall said. "But I reserve the right to make a play call in a critical moment, a key third down. I'll work toward managing the entire game."
This might make the difference for BYU since last year they were very predictable, and maybe a new prospective will do BYU good. Bronco did pass it off as no big deal but it is because of how last year the team flamed out against good opponents.
Lya Wodraska Salt Lake Tribune: Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham is now the top of the MWC and the non-BCS schools for his 2008 season. Coach Whittingham is taking it in stride by telling players that 2008 was great but it is behind us, and here is what he specifically said about moving forward:
"What we did last year was great, but it's time to move on," he said. "We had that meeting in January. It wasn't easy to put it into practice, when the town was having parades, there was no clean cut from last year. Hopefully everything is behind us and we can move forward."
Smart move for Whittingham to move forward and focus on 2009. He does have experience since he took over after the 2004 Utah team that went undefeated, so hopefully he picked up a few tricks to keep the team focused.
Stefan Stevenson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Jerry Hughes had two goals he wanted to accomplish from his playing career at TCU, which is why he did not go to the pros last year, which was to get his degree and get a ring:
"I felt like the season we had last year we left a lot of things incomplete," Hughes said. "TCU is a great academic school and I always knew if [a degree] was something I had an opportunity to get I was going to go through with it."
Very smart for Hughes to want to get a degree to help himself once he is done after his NFL career, and hopefully if TCU is as good as they should be his draft stock will only increase.
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